German president to visit Ulyanovsk.

ULYANOVSK, October 14 (Itar-Tass) - German President Christian Wulff
will visit Ulyanovsk on Thursday within the framework of his state visit
to Russia.
The press service of the regional government told Itar-Tass that the
two-day stay of the German president in Ulyanovsk includes a meeting with
governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergei Morozov and students of the
Russian-German department of Ulyanovsk State University, visiting an
exhibition of Russian-German joint projects and a meeting with
representatives of the Ulyanovsk regional German cultural autonomy.
Christian Wulff is expected to be given the title of Honorary
Professor of Ulyanovsk State University. The president will also visit the
regional training-technical Bosch created on the base of one of the best
vocational schools of the region. Advanced construction technology is
taught here to students using modern methods. Wulff will visit the centre'
s joinery and welding shops and speak to the students.
The German Language Week underway these days in the Ulyanovsk region
is timed to the German president's visit. Book exhibitions devoted to the
German National Unity Day opened in the regional schools. A competition of
literary translations of German fairytales is also held. The regional
roundtable "Dialogue of Cultures" will be held in Ulyanovsk on Thursday
and a Youth Forum devoted to Germany's unification will be opened at the
regional library.
Christian Wulff will also meet the leadership of the haemodialysis
centre of the joint-stock company Branch of Fresenius NephroCare Ulyanovsk
that is engaged in the treatment of people with failed kidneys. It is the
first specialised dialysis centre in Russia built under the project and
with support of the world-known German firm Fresenius.
Germans live on the banks of the Volga River for nearly 250 years. The
first re-settlers from Germany came to the Volga at the invitation of
Catherine the Great in 1764 and occupied empty lands near Saratov. Here
they founded cities and settlements. The population was speaking German,
there were German schools, institutes and newspapers there. In 1913, there
were 600,000 Germans living in the Volga region.
Germany can be rightfully called one of the largest investors in the
economy of the Ulyanovsk region and one of the largest trade and cultural
partners. The region's trade turnover with Germany annually grows by 30
percent on the average. During the Year of Germany in the Ulyanovsk region
in 2009, more than 50 various events were held in the sphere of education,
culture and the economy. In September 2010, Ulyanovsk hosted a major forum
entitled "Russia - Russian Germans - Germany" in which delegations of
Russian Germans from more than 20 regions of the country took part.
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.Russia mountain infantry to go to India for joint exercise.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, October 14 (Itar-Tass) - A total of 280 servicemen of
the 34th separate motorised rifle brigade stationed in the
Karachai-Cherkessia republic on Thursday are departing for India for the
participation in the joint manoeuvres Indra 2010.
Southern Military District (SMD) commander's press secretary
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrei Bobrun told Itar-Tass that it will be an
antiterrorism exercise.
"At the manoeuvres that will be conducted in the period from October
15 to 24, the SMD military are to form with the Indian troops the joint
headquarters of a united tactical group, plan and further conduct combat
operations in the zone of the antiterrorism operation in adverse terrain
conditions," Bobrun specified.
The place of the Indra 2010 joint Russian-Indian exercise is in the
northeast of India 350 kilometres from the capital New Delhi in the
Uttarakhand state bordering on China at an altitude of 2,000 metres above
sea level.
The Russian troops will be transported to the exercise area by the two
transport planes Ilyushin Il-76 of the Russian Air Force to the Indian
city of Bareilly, and from there by land transport they will be taken to
the site of the drill. The Russian mountain infantry are to cover a total
of 5,000 kilometres. All of them will come to the manoeuvres armed with
their service small weapons.
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